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axioms_Endon Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean

I think olive oil is not that easy to replace as it's often used as a condiment due to it's unique taste.

I think it's mostly "Look at this weird Polish thing". It's funny, it's local and it pops out during last few election, so probably someone decided to share this cultural phenomena, because of the timing.

axioms_Endon Most of Us Are Blissfully Ignorant About How Much Rancid Olive Oil We Use (2016)

But most English speakers (IFAIK, I'm not native) use rancid as "spoiled" only for a group of produce, like oil or butter that went through rancidification process. So it's more like word rancid has more common meaning (being unpleasant) and more scientific and less commonly used one (went through rancidification).

axioms_Endon Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful

They mention that "nearly all" alternatives are marked as ultraprocessed, which is kinda meaningful. Tofu and tempeh can be easily made in home environment, basic soy milk (water + soy) also, so alternatives that stay ultraprocessed are either modified in other ways (added sweeteners, etc) or are ready meals (like burgers and breaded cutlets). And difference in nutritional values between those categories is rather stark.

axioms_Endon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

One issue : Wansee takes place in 1942, that is in the middle of the war. Until now, most camps are "just" concentration (death by labour) camps, and Jews are mostly in the ghettos. Only after Wansee you have start of mass transports to death camps - most people who died in Auschwitz were never inmates there - they were brought from other countries, sorted on ramp and send to death. Not to mention - at that moment camps were already full of people (Auschwitz was started for Poles and Soviet POV). So no, they didn't "stop" with gas chambers - they have inmates in camps and Jews in ghettos (all having to work in one way or the other), and the idea of Final Solution wasn't complete until 1942 (and took place until 1944).

axioms_Endon Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions

Small difference: we banned chemicals responsible for ozon layer disruption, similar situation with acid rain (talking about 1st world with rain). So it's not like we forgotten, more like it's a non-issue now. Global warming is only going to get worse.

axioms_Endon Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious

Maybe, but having a friend and a bad therapist may end in dumping therapist and looking for another one, having friend as therapist for serious issues may end up in having no friend and being lonely.

axioms_Endon Never waste a midlife crisis

1) Length of therapy is strongly correlated to school. CBT and it's forks are relatively short and ability-oriented, where psychodynamic is very long with hazy endpoint. And generally CBT should be pushed much more, as it's faster, more goal-oriented, and less prone to, let's say, therapist biases.

2) Although I get the idea that people need friends and family, it's easy to forget that people with severe issues do not look like they have them. And taking care of eating disorder/personality disorder/*PTSD/whatever else treated through therapy, not medication patient is a lot of work to which most people are not equipped, and which drains a lot, to the point of resentment (if they can't run away) or just ghosting. Also, it's not that people do not hear "harsh truths" - it's more about not being able to comprehend them, due to broken thought patterns.

axioms_Endon Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin

I think you missed mindfulness - it's being integrated into a lot of psychological therapies (DBT, MCBT). It's strongly based on meditation, if not meditation repackaged.

axioms_Endon Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

The contra to this nonsense was state-controlled and heavily censored - as much as I like Polish school of poster, or overall "tidyness" of communal spaces in post-communist areas, it was (to say it mildly) stifling creativity.

axioms_Endon Txti is shutting down

The problem is that the article was called "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet", not "Yancy Dark Forest". IMHO it's like "Ultraviolet catastrophe of book collecting" or "Gravity well of Tinder" : general scientific theory /hipothesis used as metaphor of a thing. Of course Dark Forest is not as well known as previously mentioned theories (although it was mentioned by Kurzsgesat, so who knows), but the whole thing is clearly explained in the essay, and the author is clearly stating what Dark Forest is and who created it. Also, the original comment probably mentioned it as Yancy Dark Forest, as "The Dark... Of the Internet" written by Yancy, not as "Yancy totally original idea".

axioms_Endon Txti is shutting down

You mean Liu Cixin, that Yancy mentions in the first sentence of his essay about Dark Forest of Internet, or someone else?